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Tue Apr 1 13:11:27 EDT 2008

Fair question.  FAAB was certainly manual in that, once winning bids were determined, the following had to be adjusted by hand: (1) player salary and (2) affected FAAB budgets (both to account for E-bay style bidding).  I also had to do the same for waivers of players traded to the NL (adding money back to the FAAB budget).  Under the Sportsline system, I will certainly have to do at least that same amount of manual labor to deal with FAAB bidding.  

As to the reporting period issue, I am for the moment stumped.  In the league set-up process, there was an option to set the scoring periods.  Three decisions had to be made: (a) scoring period, with the options being weekly, biweekly, or monthly, (b) the date each period starts on (every day of the week was an option), and (c) the date the season starts on (the options were 3/25 or 3/30).  We chose the following options: weekly, Sunday, and 3/25.  My only guess at this point is, by choosing the 3/25 start date, the first period was defined to be every Sunday occurring after both 3/25 and 3/30, making the first reporting period run through 4/6.  I have submitted a question to Sportsline to find out.  

  -- Mark B.

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	From: announce-bounces at usml.net [mailto:announce-bounces at usml.net] On Behalf Of Richard Robbins
	Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 1:06 PM
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	Didn't FAAB last year require a fair amount of manual effort on Mark's part?

	If we're able to handle trades and lineup changes on line with manual or semi-manual processing of FAAB as in the past, how bad would that be?  I'm trying to get a sense of how rough things were with FAAB last year from Mark's perspective as compared to our old-old service as compared to what CBS Sportsline offers.

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	From: announce-bounces at usml.net [mailto:announce-bounces at usml.net] On Behalf Of rickgam at comcast.net
	Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 12:53 PM
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	Greetings;
	     It depends on how much Sportsline can be tweaked.  But if it comes down to maintaining our current rules (especially FAAB) or modifying them to fit Sportsline I'd vote for changing services - as long as it's not too much of a hassle for the Commish.
	   Rick

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		From: "Blocker, Mark B." <mblocker at Sidley.com> 

		League: 

		  I have returned from my vacation in England to see that there are lots of e-mails addressing many different items relating to roster entry and roster moves.  I will try to address these over the next few days with Jeff's assistance.  I scanned the e-mails quickly last night and one astute comment that was made is that we were somewhat spoiled by our use of All Star Stats, which can readily accommodate many different styles of playing roto, and was easily able to adapt to our unique rules.  It appears that Sportsline is not so readily adaptable.  This means we have two choices: we will either need to (a) modify somewhat our current rules to make the far-less-expensive Sportsline system work, or (b) abandon Sportsline and return to All Star Stats (or something else).  I personally would prefer the former, but I am interested in the views of others.  Also, I understand that this decision could hinge on how many of t he cur rent problems we can fix over the next few days, but let me know if you have specific views.

		  I will be around today at work if anyone wants to chat about this. 

		  -- Mark B. 

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